topic Re: CREO 4.0 Prints Too Light in System Administration

CREO 4.0 Prints Too Light

dbower-3 — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:05:29 GMT

Making the Jump to Creo 4.0.

While plotting, the plots are coming out too light, almost like a Gray-scale. Played with the settings, but nothing has jumped out.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Re: CREO 4.0 Prints Too Light

AmitDeshpande — Wed, 10 May 2017 17:31:28 GMT

Hi David,

Are you using a pen table file? If not, see if you can access this document on how to set up the pen table file:

Thanks,

Amit

Re: CREO 4.0 Prints Too Light

dbower-3 — Wed, 10 May 2017 18:19:05 GMT

I am pointing to the same Pen Table file that we've been using with Creo 2.0.

Does this need to be modified for Creo 4.0?

Thanks for the response.

Re: CREO 4.0 Prints Too Light

dbower-3 — Wed, 10 May 2017 18:27:47 GMT

Contents of 'Table.pnt'

pen 1 thickness .030 cm; attention_color

pen 2 thickness .025 cm;

pen 3 thickness .016 cm;

pen 4 thickness .070 cm;

pen 5 thickness .030 cm;

pen 6 thickness .016 cm;

pen 7 thickness .005 cm;

pen 8 thickness .016 cm;

!PEN 1 = WHITE ENTITIES (OBJECT LINES)

!PEN 2 = YELLOW ENTITIES (TEXT, DIMENSIONS, CROSS HATCHING, LEADERS)

!PEN 3 = GRAY ENTITIES (HIDDEN LINES)

!PEN 4 = RED ENTITIES (CAN USE FOR DRAWING BORDER IF YOU CHANGE THE ENTITY COLOR TO RED IN THE FORMAT FILE)

!PEN 5 = GREEN ENTITIES (SHEETMETAL)

!PEN 6 = CYAN ENTITIES (SECTION)

!PEN 7 = DARK GRAY ENTITIES (DIMMED)

!PEN 8 = BLUE ENTITIES (SPLINE SURFACE GRID)

Re: CREO 4.0 Prints Too Light

MartinHanak — Thu, 11 May 2017 06:30:59 GMT

Hi,

if you want to print all drawing items in black color, then use the following pentable.

pen 1 color 0 0 0; thickness .030 cm; attention_color

pen 2 color 0 0 0; thickness .025 cm;

pen 3 color 0 0 0; thickness .016 cm;

pen 4 color 0 0 0; thickness .070 cm;

pen 5 color 0 0 0; thickness .030 cm;

pen 6 color 0 0 0; thickness .016 cm;

pen 7 color 0 0 0; thickness .005 cm;

pen 8 color 0 0 0; thickness .016 cm;

Re: CREO 4.0 Prints Too Light

dbower-3 — Thu, 11 May 2017 14:37:56 GMT

Thanks Martin, that did the trick!

David